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Are you in control of your social media profile?
An online survey of over a thousand hiring managers and human
resource professionals across a variety of industries and company sizes was
conducted by CareerBuilder
in 2018.
It found that 70% of employers use social networking sites to research job candidates during the hiring process. It also found that 48% of employers admit to monitoring employees on social media and that a third of employers had fired or reprimanded employees as a result of content they found online.
The reasons employers gave for researching potential or existing employees via social media were:
Gain information in support of their qualifications for the job (58%) Determine if the candidate has a professional online persona (50%) See what other people are posting about the candidate (34%) Identify any reason not to hire the candidate (22%)
What content is most damaging?
The kind of...